Radical 47

Radical 47 or radical river (巛部) meaning "river" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

巛
Radical 47 (U+2F2E)
巛 (U+5DDB) "river"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:chuān
Bopomofo:ㄔㄨㄢ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:chuan
Wade–Giles:chʽuan1
Cantonese Yale:chyūn[1]
Jyutping:cyun1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:chhoan
Japanese Kana:セン sen (on'yomi)
かわ kawa (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:천 cheon
Names
Chinese name(s):三拐 sānguǎi
Japanese name(s):川/かわ kawa
曲がり川/まがりがわ magarigawa
曲げ川/まげかわ magekawa
三本川/さんぼんがわ sanbongawa
Hangul:내 nae
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 26 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

巛 is also the 60th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0巛 巜 川
+3州 巟 巠 巡
+8巢 巣JP (=巢)
+12巤

Literature

  • Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York, 1987: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.CS1 maint: location (link)
  • Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

References

  1. Erik E. Peterson. "On-line Chinese Tools - Chinese Character Dictionary". Retrieved 2011-04-08.
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